Genus of gastropods
Circulus
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Shell of Circulus ryalli (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Mollusca
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Class:
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Gastropoda
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Subclass:
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Caenogastropoda
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Order:
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Littorinimorpha
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Superfamily:
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Truncatelloidea
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Family:
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Vitrinellidae
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Genus:
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Circulus Jeffreys, 1865
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Type species
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Delphinula duminyi
Requien, 1848
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Synonyms[1]
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- Circlotoma Laseron, 1958
- Circulus (Circulus) Jeffreys, 1865
- Cyclostrema (Lydiphnis) Melvill, 1906 junior subjective synonym (original combination)
- Elachorbis Iredale, 1915
- Lydiphnis Melvill, 1906 junior subjective synonym
- Lydiphnis (Cymatopteryx) Pilsbry & Olssen, 1946 junior subjective synonym
- Lydiphnis (Mesopteryx) Pilsbry & Olssen, 1945 junior homonym (of Mesopteryx Saussure, 1870 (Orthoptera )
- Pygmaeorota Kuroda & Habe, 1954
- † Pygmaeorota (Lydiphnopsis) Shuto, 1969 junior subjective synonym
- Pygmaeorota (Pygmaeorota) Kuroda & Habe, 1954
- Pygmaeorota (Soyorota) Habe, 1961
- Pygmaerota Kuroda & Habe, 1952 (nude name)
- Soyorota Habe, 1961
- Trochus (Circulus) Jeffreys, 1865 (original rank)
- Vitrinella (Lydiphnis) Melvill, 1906
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Circulus is a genus of very small and minute sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Vitrinellidae.[2]